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I like this behaviour (that the gallery shows album art images), although perhaps it should be split up into "Photos" (for the Photos folder) and "Other images" or something (for other images indexed on the device).

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I've been thinking it would be great to have a 'directory' setting in the app settings menu for the Gallery app and the Media app.

Which would allow you to set 'folders' with a folder title and a directory path. Which would filter the results from Tracker based on that directory path, and thus enable the user to set things up according to their own structure.

In my case I have clear folders for Music and Photos on my SDCard, so with some kind of control it would be trivial to split out my Music folder so I dont have to wade through hundreds of album art pictures to get to my photos.

Same with the media app, instead of it occasionally picking up other sound files on my Jolla downloaded by third party apps, I can set a Music directory and it will only show files from there

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Is there any progress? I did not find any options to tweak folder indexation settings. I DO NOT WANT to see my albums covers in gallery!!! At least i want to MANUALY select wich folder i want to include in gallery!

Well, i'm not using mp3 files at all, i'm listening only flac and DSD audio through external amplifier. My files are very large. Anyway, thank you. But i will send message to support. I think they should do something with it, because it is very odd to use gallery that way.

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Well, it is somkind of wayout, thanks.

But do you think, is it so difficult to make simple option menu for gallery in OS, that is NOT free now? I think, they must do such simple things, other way they will go to the bottom. Someone from Jolla can answer this simple question?

it requires a file to be added in music folder called .noimage
the situation you describe only happens when your music is NOT in the nemo/home Music folder, for example you have muaic on your SD card, in the nemo music folder it will NOT index images.

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My music is in android_storage\Music folder because i'm using PowerAMP player. If .noimage file will help then it is very funny that Jolla CAN'T add index/noindex feature, because the only thing that needed is automatically put "noimage" to folders. Anyway, it is very simple functionality and it SHOULD be integrated.

I will put .noimage file to my music folder and will try to upload few more albums.

I'm on sailfishX 2.1.3.7ea on a f5121 an had that cover images in the gallery too. After a hard reset of the tracker everything was correct again (no covers in gallery). Maybe a softreset (tracker reset -e) can help too, but I have not tried it.

Use terminal and type:

tracker reset -r

Use

tracker status

to check the tracker reindexing progress. I have no '.noimage' in my ~/Music folder.

update 20171109: The bug is still present: today I put some albums on my sdcard and got the images in the gallery. The .noimage File does not fix it. I decided to exclude the sdcard from the tracker (I have no pictures or videos on sdcard) and play music albums from the sdcard with flowplayer (you can define the folders there).